OSU's Open Source Lab names well-connected advisers

Oregon State's Open Source Lab named seven from the tech industry to form a new advisory council for the lab. Advisers are charged with helping connect the lab to open source communities and to create opportunities for OSU students.

The advisers are:

• Dries Buytaert, the creator of the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform and co-founder of a startup called Acquia.

• Justin Erenkrantz, senior software engineer at Joost and president of the Apache Software Foundation.

• Chris DiBona, open source programs manager at Google. (Google has given $750k to the OSL over the past three years.)

• Greg Kroah-Hartman, senior fellow at Novell.

• Allison Randal, chief architect and lead developer of the open source project Parrot and a member of The Perl Foundation board. Randall also chairs the annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), which moves from Portland to San Jose next year.

• Marie Deatherage, director of communications and learning at the Meyer Memorial Trust. She also serves on the board of directors at FreeGeek in Portland.

• Jason McKerr, director of technology for InsightsNow Inc., a market research company in Corvallis. He's also OSL's co-founder.